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Historically black colleges struggling to survive, newspaper reports

Black Colleges Struggles

In this July 17, 2014 photo, a plywood board covers the door of Gaines Gall on the campus of Morris Brown College in Atlanta. A 133-year-old private institution, Morris Brown filed for bankruptcy in August 2012 and has received court approval to sell some of its property.
(AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Five historically black colleges and universities have shut down in the past 20 years, the Chronicle notes, and more than a dozen have suffered accreditation problems.

In 1950, historically black institutions absorbed nearly to 100 percent of African-American college students, the Chronicle writes. With more higher education choices open to African-Americans, however, only around 11 percent of black college students choose to attend a historically black college or university.